Monitoring post-wildfire vegetation response with remotely sensed time-series data in Spain, USA and Israel

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-93

  Van Leeuwen, Willem J D ^a   Casady, Grant M ^a   Neary, Daniel G ^b   Bautista, Susana ^c   Alloza, José Antonio ^d   Carmel, Yohay ^e   Wittenberg, Lea ^f   Malkinson, Dan ^f   Orr, Barron J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

drylands; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; phenology; remote sensing; time series; vegetation recovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960848108     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF08078     Document Type: Article

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